An Attempt to Escape from Myself

Ion Degen's "An Attempt to Escape from Myself," 2018, 261 pages, is a collection of 17 stories, written in 1959 - 2016, and carefully selected by the author to be included in his last, post-mortal, book, just a few weeks before his death. In this book Ion Degen (1925-2017) - a war hero, a surgeon, a scientist and a writer, - examining the life he has lived through, looks at love through the prism of war and at war through the prism of love.